Recent results from the NRG-NSABP B-51/RTOG 1304 clinical study showed that the addition of regional nodal irradiation (RNI) does not decrease the rates of invasive breast cancer recurrence in patients whose positive axillary nodes at presentation convert to negative following neoadjuvant chemotherapy. These results were recently published in the New England Journal of Medicine.
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